Now that we’ve covered the present perfect, we’ll provide a brief overview of the rest of the perfect tenses, beginning with the past perfect (or plu-perfect) tense:
To create this tense, we will pair the past participle of a verb with haber in the imperfect tense:
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To create this tense, we will pair the past participle of a verb with haber in the future tense:
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To create this tense, we will pair the past participle of a verb with haber in the preterite tense:
* Note: This tense is very rare in modern spoken Spanish. It typically appears with a word or phrase that marks its immediacy, like en cuanto or apenas, both of which can mean as soon as.
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To create this tense, we will pair the past participle of a verb with haber in the conditional:
* Note: This often appears with the past perfect subjunctive. See another example under that section.
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To create this tense, we will pair the past participle of a verb with haber in the present subjunctive:
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To create this tense, we will pair the past participle of a verb with haber in the imperfect subjunctive:
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To create this tense, we will pair the past participle of a verb with haber in the future subjunctive:
* Note: This form is rarely used in modern Spanish – it primarily appears in older literary works and in some legal documents. Speakers use different combinations of tenses to complete these functions.
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